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From: koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SMT clock-on-a-chip
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:51:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.215304.6785@mks.com> <1991Jan9.162654.13606@panix.uucp>
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In article <1991Jan9.162654.13606@panix.uucp> schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes:
> It's the Dallas Semiconductor DS1216E Smartwatch. Radio Shack sells it
>under the name SmartWatch, and furnishes MS-DOS software to set and
>read it.
> I once knew how this worked, but suffice it to say it's not just "read"
>like a regular ROM. You need the software.
>
Well, sort of like that.....  Actually (Zenith Data Systems) versions of MS-DOS
3.xx (and higher?) read the 'SmartWatch' by themselves at boot time, you only
need the software to set it.

Walt K.

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